Amirtha Kidambi+Matt Evans
The duo of Matt Evans (drums/percussion) and Amirtha Kidambi (vocals/electronics) was formed amidst their shared experiences of grief surrounding the death of loved ones; experiences that guided their creation of a mutual ritual music to act as a cathartic vessel for processing this loss. Their relationship emerged from the viscera of a year and a half of exchanging thoughts on the nonlinear nature of grief and its chaotic emotional trajectory, the abstraction of a person without physical form, and the trauma of one’s foundations being shattered, necessitating a total spiritual rebirth. In tandem with these personal experiences was the macro-mourning of the loss of touch and social connection during the pandemic, life before it began, and the ravages of death in its path. Having never played together, the two recorded their first improvisations, inevitably expressive of their ongoing conversations, which became the source material for their collaboration and first release Impermanence.
The duo of Matt Evans (drums/percussion) and Amirtha Kidambi (vocals/electronics) was formed amidst their shared experiences of grief surrounding the death of loved ones; experiences that guided their creation of a mutual ritual music to act as a cathartic vessel for processing this loss. Their relationship emerged from the viscera of a year and a half of exchanging thoughts on the nonlinear nature of grief and its chaotic emotional trajectory, the abstraction of a person without physical form, and the trauma of one’s foundations being shattered, necessitating a total spiritual rebirth. In tandem with these personal experiences was the macro-mourning of the loss of touch and social connection during the pandemic, life before it began, and the ravages of death in its path. Having never played together, the two recorded their first improvisations, inevitably expressive of their ongoing conversations, which became the source material for their collaboration and first release Impermanence.
